Alexander Solzhenitsyn has died in Moscow
A writer and a Nobel Prize laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn died in Moscow on Monday night. According to preliminary information, he had a stroke, reports “Interfax”.
Solzhenitsyn became famous thanks to his first narrative “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” and a novel “The Gulag Archipelago”. He was arrested in January 1945 and was sentenced to eight years in a labour camp.
He was released in 1953 and deprived of the Russian citizenship in 1974. He was banished from the USSR and moved to the USA. He was given the Russian citizenship at the beginning of the 90s and returned to his motherland in 1994.
Solzhenitsyn became famous thanks to his first narrative “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” and a novel “The Gulag Archipelago”. He was arrested in January 1945 and was sentenced to eight years in a labour camp.
He was released in 1953 and deprived of the Russian citizenship in 1974. He was banished from the USSR and moved to the USA. He was given the Russian citizenship at the beginning of the 90s and returned to his motherland in 1994.
